Rosa Bonheur Cause Of Death: How Did Rosa Bonheur Die?

Rosa Bonheur, was a French artist, mostly a painter of animals but also a sculptor, in a realist style.

Rosa Bonheur’s paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, and now at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair (in French: Le marché aux chevaux),which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City.

Rosa Bonheur was widely considered to be the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century.

A French government commission led to Bonheur’s first great success, Ploughing in the Nivernais, exhibited in 1849 and now in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.

Rosa Bonheur’s most famous work, the monumental The Horse Fair, was completed in 1855 and measured eight feet high by sixteen feet wide.

It depicts the horse market held in Paris, on the tree-lined boulevard de l’Hôpital, near the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, which is visible in the painting’s background. There is a reduced version in the National Gallery in London.

Rosa Bonheur died of pulmonary influenza in 1899 at the age of 77.